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Many Americans celebrate Juneteenth, the day in 1865 when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed.
Juneteenth celebrations have been scaled back this year due to funding shortfalls as companies and municipalities across the ...
The day marks the end of slavery in the US, two years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation in ...
Galveston celebrates the 160th Juneteenth anniversary with a week of events honoring emancipation and African American ...
In the four years since Juneteenth became a national holiday, Galveston has embraced its complicated past in a way it never ...